Ashitha Nagesh

I was on the The Jeremy Vine Show on BBC Radio 2 yesterday, talking about my interview with a former slaughterhouse worker.
Read the interview here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/stories-50 986683
And listen to the show here (from about 37 mins in): https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000d7x r

A while ago I spoke to a former slaughterhouse worker about how the job had affected them. Here's what they had to say.

A woman in a domestic violence situation managed to call 911 without the perpetrator realising, by pretending to order a pizza.
This tactic for subtly calling the emergency services has been internet lore for years, but this is a rare confirmed case of it being effective.

Burger King is being sued by a vegan customer for cooking its Impossible Whopper on the same grills as its meat burgers, and for not making this clear when people are ordering.
A spokeswoman for the supplier, Impossible Foods, said that vegetarians and vegans "are welcome to ask" for their burger to be cooked in a microwave.

In St Petersburg, Russia, a tight-knit community of vegan anarchists (aka veganarchists) have created a microcosm of their ideal world: one which values human rights, animal liberation and the planet. For them, food isn't just a lifestyle choice - it's an important tool for political and social change.
Read more about them, and the veganarchist movement, in my piece on BBC News website today, and listen to my BBC Radio 4 piece, which was broadcast on From Our Own Correspondent yesterday: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0009z2h

It's thought there are three million different species living in the Amazon - about 10% of all the species in the world. So what happens to them when their home catches fire?

ICYMI, in this article earlier this week I spoke to professional gamers about what it takes to make it in this billion dollar industry:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-49206676

"He's treating us like a good he can purchase. He's not even talking to Greenland - he's talking to Denmark about buying Greenland."
I spoke to Greenlanders about Trump, the displacement of the indigenous Inughuit community to make way for the (still active) US air base in Thule, an abandoned US nuclear station that, as the ice melts, threatens to expose toxic materials to the environment, and about the many discarded military bases that the US has left to decay across the island.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-4 9436197

"On top of not accepting an America that elected us, you cannot accept that we don't fear you either." - Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
In tweets apparently targeting four Democratic congresswomen of colour, Trump told them to "go back...to the totally broken and crime-infested places from which they came".
The congresswomen, who are all American, have responded.

Freckles - so-called because of the freckles on her belly - appeared to ask diver Jack Wilton for help.

When Indonesian jazz singer Andien posted an Instagram story of herself, her husband and her young son going to bed with their mouths taped shut, it sparked a lot of confusion, not to mention ridicule.
Here's why she was doing it — and why it's not a great idea.

Is Stella McCartney right? Should we stop washing our clothes, or at least wash them less often? Thoughts in comments! 👇🏽

Before, during and after the match on 17 April 1993, fans jeered and shouted racist abuse at the Aboriginal Australian footballer Nicky Winmar. Some also spat at him, while others threw cans.
When the siren sounded declaring his team had won the game, the abuse intensified. So Nicky lifted his shirt, pointed to the brown skin beneath his team jersey, and shouted back at them: "I am black, and I am proud to be black!"

Donald J. Trump and Kim Jong Un met for a "brief handshake" in the Demilitarised Zone (DMZ) between the two Koreas. Several brief handshakes, friendly chats and a press conference later, they're still going...
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Brenton Tarrant has pleaded not guilty to murder and terrorism charges connected to the Christchurch mosque attacks.

The Mexican government has accused designer Carolina Herrera of cultural appropriation for using patterns from indigenous communities in her latest collection, Resort 2020.
"In these embroideries is the history of the community itself, and each element has a personal, family and community meaning," Mexico's culture secretary Alejandra Frausto wrote in a letter to Herrera.